The Worldly Philosophers

Summaries and Critical Commentaries.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

Chapter 2: The Economic Revolution.

Chapter 3: The Wonderful World of Adam Smith.

Chapter 4: The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.

Chapter 5: The Visions of the Utopian Socialists.

Chapter 6: The Inexorable System of Karl Marx.

Chapter 7: The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics.

Chapter 8: The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen.

Chapter 9: The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes.

Chapter 10: The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter.

Chapter 11: Behind the Worldly Philosophy.

Summary and Evaluation.

Definitions of Significant Terms and Concepts.

Study Questions.

Selected Bibliography.